The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias (New Frontiers in Historical Ecology) - Hardcover

Cormier, Loretta A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598744828 ISBN 13: 9781598744828

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century. In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, anthropology, and other fields to reveal the intimate relationships between culture and environment that shape the trajectory of a parasite. She argues against the entrenched distinction between human and non-human malarias, using ethnoprimatology to develop a new understanding of cross-species exchange. She also shows how current human-environment interactions, including deforestation and development, create the potential for new forms of malaria to threaten human populations. This book is a model of interdisciplinary integration that will be essential reading in fields from anthropology and biology to public health.

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Loretta A. Cormier

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598744828
• ISBN 13: 9781598744828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 241